Papers by Daniel You-Ren Yang
「都市研究--空間化社會學」課程大綱
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This research investigated the uneven geography of gentrification and the derived community-based... more This research investigated the uneven geography of gentrification and the derived community-based conflicts in Taipei’s urban renewal after 2006, which has chiefly been boosted by transferable development rights (TDR). In this context, we argue that TDR has developed a monetary function, and we introduce the notion of strategic monopoly rent to reconceptualise TDR. Accordingly, we propose an institutionalised rent gap model from the perspective of investigating the institutional increase and social dispossession of the rent gap, which have been boosted by the financialised TDR and strategically structured by the state and developers under the regulation of property
rights exchange. This system appreciates the potential ground rent and depreciates the building value institutionally – a practice not related to the actual occurrence of its physical deterioration. Landowners are either encouraged or coerced to participate in the distribution of the enlarged rent gap. Two forms of the social dispossession of ground rent have occurred, including the dispossession of the landowners as a whole by the developer and the dispossession of one landowner by another. We argue that the gentrification system has produced the mal-effects of surging housing prices, enclosure, dispossession, displacement and social antagonism.
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Advances in Applied Sociology, Mar 2013
This paper aims to explore the evolutionary dynamics of the ODM model in the global notebook PC i... more This paper aims to explore the evolutionary dynamics of the ODM model in the global notebook PC industry. We found that the “modular design” process of notebook products requires plenty of technical interaction and tacit knowledge exchanges among branding companies, key component suppliers and ODMs. Taiwanese ODMs serve as important sources of information and knowledge for specifications formulation through their system integration and technological development abilities. With increasing complexity and shorter design life-spans, the mutual dependency among the lead firms and ODMs increases, leading to the regional agglomeration in Taiwan and China.
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Wu, F., Zhang, F. and Webster, C.(eds)(2014)Villages in Urban China: Migrants and Urbanized Villages in Chinese Cities. London: Routledge, pp.147-163., Aug 2014
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This article aims to explore the mechanisms of the development zone fever in the Suzhou region, l... more This article aims to explore the mechanisms of the development zone fever in the Suzhou region, located in the fast-growing Yangtze River Delta, and investigates, from an institutional perspective, the practice of relevant intragovernmental governance in the context of rapid industrialisation since the 1990s. A specifi c mode of governance—the evaluative economic indicators scheme inherited from the earlier socialist planning
system, combined with the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system—plays an essential role in this transformation of farmland property rights. However, this model of development is not necessarily helpful for local fi nancial conditions and it results
in the disclacement of peasants and the loss of land resources. Based on the resulting ‘dilemmas of governance’, it is argued that, in addition to the ‘economic paradigm’, which focuses on consequences of fi scal reforms and devolution, scholars should pay more attention to factors such as the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system and the stress between the evaluative indicators system maintained by the central/local
sectoral command and the territorial jurisdictions. This could be helpful in gaining a fuller understanding of the dynamics and tensions of local developments in China.
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Urban Studies, Sep 2007
This article investigates Taipingqiao urban redevelopment projects in Shanghai that have conserv... more This article investigates Taipingqiao urban redevelopment projects in Shanghai that have conserved the traditional ‘Shikumen’ architectural form with the goal of exploring the driving-forces behind Shanghai’s spatial restructuring and to shed light on the new mechanisms for public–private partnership evolving in China. A model called a ‘rent gap seeking regime’ (RGSR) is proposed to explain the mechanisms behind China’s urban redevelopment. It is found that the logic of capital accumulation has dominated the reshaping of Shikumen’s spatial forms and has been transformed into symbolic real estate values. It is argued that a pro-growth
coalition between district government and foreign capital emerged during this process of urban restructuring; the paper analyses the features of how this coalition exercises power. Finally, based on empirical research, the paper engages Western regime analysis in a theoretical dialogue.
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Growth and Change, Mar 2009
This article applies a global production networks (GPN) perspective to the trans-border investme... more This article applies a global production networks (GPN) perspective to the trans-border investments of Taiwanese personal computer (PC) companies in the Northern Taiwan,
Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan regions. The findings of extensive field research are used to illustrate two conceptual arguments. First, we show the on-the-ground complexity of inter-firm governance arrangements within the PC industry, thereby casting doubt upon attempts to reduce notions of governance to simplistic, industry-wide categorisations. Second, by comparing Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan, we demonstrate that even within a single production system, there
is geographical variation in the nature of the strategic coupling between the GPN and local institutional formations. We argue that conceptualising such geographical and organisational complexity is critical to understanding the regional development potential of GPNs.
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Environment and Planning A, Mar 2007
Transborder investment by Taiwanese information-technology (IT) companies has driven the develop... more Transborder investment by Taiwanese information-technology (IT) companies has driven the development of a new industrial space in the Greater Suzhou Area (GSA) of China over the last ten years. In this paper we aim to explore some characteristics of this expansion from the perspective of the organizational dynamics of global production networks. We found that foreign brand-name
companies have played a key role in propelling this wave of investment in the GSA by Taiwanese IT companies. At the same time, their business strategies have influenced the mechanisms governing these Taiwanese companies' supply chains and have forged the dynamics of spatial agglomeration. We argue that the transborder extension of the production networks is interwoven with the exercise of power between enterprise organizations. Our findings suggest that interdependence among firms in close geographical proximity is inseparable from the asymmetrical power relations embodied in global commodity chains; a point emphasized by economic geographers as the main reason for transborder production shifts that result in the formation of new industrial spaces in developing countries.However, if these production networks can respond collectively to such a strict environment through instituting suitable organizational governance, then their competitive advantage will be enhanced,
while also benefiting the host region's development through localization.
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Regional Studies, Apr 2009
High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling
regional development and acclaimed ... more High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling
regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in
Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different technology park projects in Taiwan as well as their
impacts on local development. Inspired by the global production networks (GPNs) perspective, a triangular framework is
proposed – the interaction between state intervention, economic competence, and societal forces – to highlight and explain the geographically varied patterns of ‘strategic coupling’ between the global production networks and local institutional
embeddedness that shape the divergent patterns of regional development in Taiwan.
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Environment and Planning A, Feb 2010
In this paper we explore the effects of technological standards on the governance structure of pr... more In this paper we explore the effects of technological standards on the governance structure of production networks by investigating patent-distribution strategies in the global mobile-communica-
tion industry. Through a comparative analysis of two mobile-communication technology standard sö GSM and CDMAöwe find that there exist significantly different patent-distribution strategies which result in varied governance structure as well as power relations within seemingly similar production
networks. Furthermore, the different social ^ institutional processes of standard setting and implemen-tation of GSM and CDMA contribute to this varied governance structure to a significant degree. Thus, we highlight the role of patent-distribution strategies in influencing value-chain governance, and
provide a dynamic view of technological standards.
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Issues and studies, Dec 2007
This article explores the divergent patterns of farmland property
rights transformation in Suzho... more This article explores the divergent patterns of farmland property
rights transformation in Suzhou and Dongguan, China, and investigates the relevant factors influencing this divergence from an institutionalist perspective. We point out that a local property rights regime based on the collective ownership system coupled with developmental dynamics at village level has made the transformation of farmland property rights in Dongguan different from that in Suzhou. We also discover some emerging local institutions that may have been factors in the variation of farmland
property rights transformation between these two regions. Furthermore, we observe that such spatial-institutional variation influences the welfare.
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Although there have been extensive studies on Chinese urbanization, few researches focus on the m... more Although there have been extensive studies on Chinese urbanization, few researches focus on the migrant workers in the world factory city and contextualize their livelihoods in those neighborhoods. This paper pays attention to the new-generation migrant workers’ way of life in Shenzheng’s Foxconn city, understood as a relevant pattern of China’s urbanism. Based on first-handed surveys and interviews, we find strong evidences to support the argument, namely, that “social alienation” is a common experience to these workers. Moreover, this study illustrates the interplay of various institutional factors contributes to the alienated urbanism, including hukou system, urban policy, corporate strategies and labor control politics. Finally we argue the migrant labor regime squeezes the workers in developing their social support networks, both instrumental and emotional, and further compresses their opportunities of social flow. To conclude, we highlight the limitation of the “social capital...
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人文地理, Dec 2013
深圳富士康工人的生活方式,某个程度是一种“疏离都市状态”,社会互动机会匮乏。本文从人文地理学角度,探索怎样的结构过程,让深圳富士康工人产生了社会疏离?强调疏离都市状态与劳动过程及其地理空间性有深... more 深圳富士康工人的生活方式,某个程度是一种“疏离都市状态”,社会互动机会匮乏。本文从人文地理学角度,探索怎样的结构过程,让深圳富士康工人产生了社会疏离?强调疏离都市状态与劳动过程及其地理空间性有深层关系,多重尺度形构的打工体制,对农民工社会网络发展产生压抑,减少阶层流动机会,加上在企业尺度上的劳动控制因素之交互作用,产生高流动率的工作換,加剧工人在异地的疏离状态。面对持续的打工城市化现象,我们主张必须朝民工市民化、雇佣关系正规化的方向,推进户籍制
度、劳动政策和都市政策三个面向的改革议程。
Although there have been extensive studies on Chinese urbanization, few researches focus on the migrant workers in the world factory city and contextualize their livelihoods in those neighborhoods. This paper pays attention to the new-generation migrant workers' way of life in Shenzheng's Foxconn city, under-
stood as a relevant pattern of China's urbanism. Main research methods used were quantitative questionnaire analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews. Purposive sampling are used for collection of samples in field investigations conducted in July 2010, March 2011 and July 2011, each took around two weeks. 316 questionnaires were issued nearby Foxconn's plant in Shenzhen. Based on the first-hand survey data and in-depth interviews, we find evidence of“social alienation”is very common to these workers' urban experience. Furthermore, we argue that the interplay of hukou system, urban policy, Foxconn's enterprise strategies and labor control politics contributes to such alienated urbanism. Besides, there is not much opportunities for tech-
nique learning at the Pugong's(普工) work unit. On the production lines they are faced with base-level management's supervisory pressure as well as manipulation of workplace politics that strive for productivity. Offwork, Pugong is the wanderer in the city without much chance for social interaction. Moreover, the workers
are coping with huge disadvantages in regards of economic and hukou system if they wanted to settle in Shenzhen. Most Pugong would not settle and get married in Shenzhen, their family status is most often "split household" in two different places. Finally, this study highlights the multi-scalar institutional barriers that
squeeze the development of migrant workers' social networks and calls on an institutional reform.
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國際城市規劃, Apr 2013
:台北市近年来大力推动都市更新,企图运用城市规划的容积金融化手段,克服和转移都市领域的积累与再生产困局,然而却因为 2012 年一户人家的拆迁,爆发了激烈的社会运动抵抗。本文指出都市更新容积奖励... more :台北市近年来大力推动都市更新,企图运用城市规划的容积金融化手段,克服和转移都市领域的积累与再生产困局,然而却因为 2012 年一户人家的拆迁,爆发了激烈的社会运动抵抗。本文指出都市更新容积奖励作为“国家机器”历史地打造的虚拟商品机制,牵涉庞大的利害关系,驱动了家园的强制金融化,加剧了资本对于都市纹理和社群关系的破坏,然其治理所需的制度镶嵌,远超出地方政府的制度能力及可问责性,以至公共利益被粗糙界定,形成对都市社会的巨大破坏力 ;而作为社会自体防御的都市运动展开结盟抗争,企图将脱缰的金融化都市发展,重新镶嵌到社会可以掌握的范围。
This paper aims to explore the historical constructions and spatial confliction in Taipei’s urban redevelopment regime built upon the plot ratio subsidization from the perspective of financialization and double movement. We found the pro-growth regime created the fictitious rights system of surplus plot value as the leverage to facilitate the real estate investment. However, in achieving the profit rate and efficiency, the regime is lacking of the required
institutional embeddedness and accountability for governing the
urban redevelopment, resulted in the forced financialization of
homestead during the process. The urban social movement upraised to protest against the redevelopment regime through the explosive anti-eviction movement of Wang Family. We argue that the double movement of social self-protection is taking place within this urban process to re-embed the financializing urban development back to the societal embeddedness.
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社會分析
本研究關懷音樂在社會運動中所扮演的「強連結」角色,以台灣具代表性的 2007 年「正義無敵」及 2005 年「音樂‧生命‧大樹下」兩個演唱會為例,探索籌辦演唱會的行動者如何藉由演唱會的形式進行組... more 本研究關懷音樂在社會運動中所扮演的「強連結」角色,以台灣具代表性的 2007 年「正義無敵」及 2005 年「音樂‧生命‧大樹下」兩個演唱會為例,探索籌辦演唱會的行動者如何藉由演唱會的形式進行組織動員?如何可能在演唱會的展演與體驗過程中對參與者產生培力作用?我們發現,音樂透過特定的演唱會組構,的確與政治社會運動產生強連結,超克僅僅是宣傳的作用,乃至於在本地的脈絡下,有可能發展出一套嶄新的音樂場景以及音樂動員結構。本研究試圖建構「議題動員取向演唱會」的概念化,並初步歸結不同音樂社群將音樂美學連結到政治參與之公共性想像的過程與差異,以及描繪音樂場景對於參與者的情感動
員之複雜作用。
This study aims to explore the role played by the music in social movement through the cases study of two issue-mobilization oriented concerts (IMOC): “Justice for All” and “Music, Life, Under the Tree”. We investigate the ways activists use the music concerts to achieve the goals of mobilization as well as empowerment. Based on the analysis of “organization-legitimation-performance” framework, we argue the music
activism actually creates “strong links” with social movements, which has transcended the mere propaganda level. Furthermore, we observed the possibility of the IMOC to shape the new mobilization structure in Taiwan’s context. Besides, we discuss the activists’ variant imaginations of the articulation between music and public participation that influence the music
scenes’ morphology as well as their relations with the crowd. Finally a research agenda concerning the resistant music and cultural reterritorialization was proposed.
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本文主要從經濟地理學的角度探討台灣資訊電子業OD M 系統廠商的產品研發行為,並和「模組化生產網絡」的觀點進行對話。本文提出一個「協商式升級」的觀點,強調台灣資訊電子業在產品研發上所扮演的技術協... more 本文主要從經濟地理學的角度探討台灣資訊電子業OD M 系統廠商的產品研發行為,並和「模組化生產網絡」的觀點進行對話。本文提出一個「協商式升級」的觀點,強調台灣資訊電子業在產品研發上所扮演的技術協商整合角色,以及與品牌客戶、關鍵零組件供應商之間的技術互動與互賴關係。台灣資訊電子業的開發過程牽動著綿密的廠商之間以及廠商內部立基於「會意化知識」之複雜互動,技術領導性廠商所建構的系統架構以及原始技術規格僅僅是這樣的技術互動之起點,模組化理論取向並不能完全解釋台灣O DM 系統廠商的協力式創新動力,而品牌廠商與供應商之間仍然維繫著很強的相互依賴性。
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經濟地理, Sep 2007
The concept of embeddedness has gained much prominence in economic geography over the last decad... more The concept of embeddedness has gained much prominence in economic geography over the last decade, as much work has been
done on the social and organizational foundations of economic activities and regional development. At the beginning, the paper reviews the concept of embeddedness. And then it introduces the geographer categories as "societal embeddedness". Network embeddedness and "territorial embeddedness" . On the theory basement, the paper discusses the argument about embeddedness of FDI- driven industrial cluster, and studies
the case of Pudong IC industrial cluster. The paper thinks that the spin- off of value chain improves the! territorial embeddedness of Pudong IC industrial cluster, just like the bridge. At last, the paper makes a conclusion.
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本文主要以PC產業台商在北台區域、大東莞以及大蘇州的發展爲經驗案例,對於闡釋經濟國全球化之重要論述-「全球商品鏈」理論提出若干修正看法,來探究產業組織與全球化下的區域發展之间的互相關係與相關應用... more 本文主要以PC產業台商在北台區域、大東莞以及大蘇州的發展爲經驗案例,對於闡釋經濟國全球化之重要論述-「全球商品鏈」理論提出若干修正看法,來探究產業組織與全球化下的區域發展之间的互相關係與相關應用。首先我們認爲探討特定產業聚集的發展時,應該關注於其作為全球生產網絡當中的一個節點,與其他節點之间的空間網絡關係,其次我們提出以「異質化治理的商品鏈」以及「領域化反身性的商品鏈」之跨界拓展/整合來修正「全球商品鏈」的概念,最後我們指出全球生產網絡的運作有賴於領域化之生產體系的支持,而商品鏈當中的結構性分工在廠商積極整合各領域性生產體系之資源的過程當中,有可能由於廠商所有權優勢的增加而被轉變,進而影響全球化下的區域發展。
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rights exchange. This system appreciates the potential ground rent and depreciates the building value institutionally – a practice not related to the actual occurrence of its physical deterioration. Landowners are either encouraged or coerced to participate in the distribution of the enlarged rent gap. Two forms of the social dispossession of ground rent have occurred, including the dispossession of the landowners as a whole by the developer and the dispossession of one landowner by another. We argue that the gentrification system has produced the mal-effects of surging housing prices, enclosure, dispossession, displacement and social antagonism.
system, combined with the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system—plays an essential role in this transformation of farmland property rights. However, this model of development is not necessarily helpful for local fi nancial conditions and it results
in the disclacement of peasants and the loss of land resources. Based on the resulting ‘dilemmas of governance’, it is argued that, in addition to the ‘economic paradigm’, which focuses on consequences of fi scal reforms and devolution, scholars should pay more attention to factors such as the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system and the stress between the evaluative indicators system maintained by the central/local
sectoral command and the territorial jurisdictions. This could be helpful in gaining a fuller understanding of the dynamics and tensions of local developments in China.
coalition between district government and foreign capital emerged during this process of urban restructuring; the paper analyses the features of how this coalition exercises power. Finally, based on empirical research, the paper engages Western regime analysis in a theoretical dialogue.
Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan regions. The findings of extensive field research are used to illustrate two conceptual arguments. First, we show the on-the-ground complexity of inter-firm governance arrangements within the PC industry, thereby casting doubt upon attempts to reduce notions of governance to simplistic, industry-wide categorisations. Second, by comparing Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan, we demonstrate that even within a single production system, there
is geographical variation in the nature of the strategic coupling between the GPN and local institutional formations. We argue that conceptualising such geographical and organisational complexity is critical to understanding the regional development potential of GPNs.
companies have played a key role in propelling this wave of investment in the GSA by Taiwanese IT companies. At the same time, their business strategies have influenced the mechanisms governing these Taiwanese companies' supply chains and have forged the dynamics of spatial agglomeration. We argue that the transborder extension of the production networks is interwoven with the exercise of power between enterprise organizations. Our findings suggest that interdependence among firms in close geographical proximity is inseparable from the asymmetrical power relations embodied in global commodity chains; a point emphasized by economic geographers as the main reason for transborder production shifts that result in the formation of new industrial spaces in developing countries.However, if these production networks can respond collectively to such a strict environment through instituting suitable organizational governance, then their competitive advantage will be enhanced,
while also benefiting the host region's development through localization.
regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in
Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different technology park projects in Taiwan as well as their
impacts on local development. Inspired by the global production networks (GPNs) perspective, a triangular framework is
proposed – the interaction between state intervention, economic competence, and societal forces – to highlight and explain the geographically varied patterns of ‘strategic coupling’ between the global production networks and local institutional
embeddedness that shape the divergent patterns of regional development in Taiwan.
tion industry. Through a comparative analysis of two mobile-communication technology standard sö GSM and CDMAöwe find that there exist significantly different patent-distribution strategies which result in varied governance structure as well as power relations within seemingly similar production
networks. Furthermore, the different social ^ institutional processes of standard setting and implemen-tation of GSM and CDMA contribute to this varied governance structure to a significant degree. Thus, we highlight the role of patent-distribution strategies in influencing value-chain governance, and
provide a dynamic view of technological standards.
rights transformation in Suzhou and Dongguan, China, and investigates the relevant factors influencing this divergence from an institutionalist perspective. We point out that a local property rights regime based on the collective ownership system coupled with developmental dynamics at village level has made the transformation of farmland property rights in Dongguan different from that in Suzhou. We also discover some emerging local institutions that may have been factors in the variation of farmland
property rights transformation between these two regions. Furthermore, we observe that such spatial-institutional variation influences the welfare.
度、劳动政策和都市政策三个面向的改革议程。
Although there have been extensive studies on Chinese urbanization, few researches focus on the migrant workers in the world factory city and contextualize their livelihoods in those neighborhoods. This paper pays attention to the new-generation migrant workers' way of life in Shenzheng's Foxconn city, under-
stood as a relevant pattern of China's urbanism. Main research methods used were quantitative questionnaire analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews. Purposive sampling are used for collection of samples in field investigations conducted in July 2010, March 2011 and July 2011, each took around two weeks. 316 questionnaires were issued nearby Foxconn's plant in Shenzhen. Based on the first-hand survey data and in-depth interviews, we find evidence of“social alienation”is very common to these workers' urban experience. Furthermore, we argue that the interplay of hukou system, urban policy, Foxconn's enterprise strategies and labor control politics contributes to such alienated urbanism. Besides, there is not much opportunities for tech-
nique learning at the Pugong's(普工) work unit. On the production lines they are faced with base-level management's supervisory pressure as well as manipulation of workplace politics that strive for productivity. Offwork, Pugong is the wanderer in the city without much chance for social interaction. Moreover, the workers
are coping with huge disadvantages in regards of economic and hukou system if they wanted to settle in Shenzhen. Most Pugong would not settle and get married in Shenzhen, their family status is most often "split household" in two different places. Finally, this study highlights the multi-scalar institutional barriers that
squeeze the development of migrant workers' social networks and calls on an institutional reform.
This paper aims to explore the historical constructions and spatial confliction in Taipei’s urban redevelopment regime built upon the plot ratio subsidization from the perspective of financialization and double movement. We found the pro-growth regime created the fictitious rights system of surplus plot value as the leverage to facilitate the real estate investment. However, in achieving the profit rate and efficiency, the regime is lacking of the required
institutional embeddedness and accountability for governing the
urban redevelopment, resulted in the forced financialization of
homestead during the process. The urban social movement upraised to protest against the redevelopment regime through the explosive anti-eviction movement of Wang Family. We argue that the double movement of social self-protection is taking place within this urban process to re-embed the financializing urban development back to the societal embeddedness.
員之複雜作用。
This study aims to explore the role played by the music in social movement through the cases study of two issue-mobilization oriented concerts (IMOC): “Justice for All” and “Music, Life, Under the Tree”. We investigate the ways activists use the music concerts to achieve the goals of mobilization as well as empowerment. Based on the analysis of “organization-legitimation-performance” framework, we argue the music
activism actually creates “strong links” with social movements, which has transcended the mere propaganda level. Furthermore, we observed the possibility of the IMOC to shape the new mobilization structure in Taiwan’s context. Besides, we discuss the activists’ variant imaginations of the articulation between music and public participation that influence the music
scenes’ morphology as well as their relations with the crowd. Finally a research agenda concerning the resistant music and cultural reterritorialization was proposed.
done on the social and organizational foundations of economic activities and regional development. At the beginning, the paper reviews the concept of embeddedness. And then it introduces the geographer categories as "societal embeddedness". Network embeddedness and "territorial embeddedness" . On the theory basement, the paper discusses the argument about embeddedness of FDI- driven industrial cluster, and studies
the case of Pudong IC industrial cluster. The paper thinks that the spin- off of value chain improves the! territorial embeddedness of Pudong IC industrial cluster, just like the bridge. At last, the paper makes a conclusion.
rights exchange. This system appreciates the potential ground rent and depreciates the building value institutionally – a practice not related to the actual occurrence of its physical deterioration. Landowners are either encouraged or coerced to participate in the distribution of the enlarged rent gap. Two forms of the social dispossession of ground rent have occurred, including the dispossession of the landowners as a whole by the developer and the dispossession of one landowner by another. We argue that the gentrification system has produced the mal-effects of surging housing prices, enclosure, dispossession, displacement and social antagonism.
system, combined with the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system—plays an essential role in this transformation of farmland property rights. However, this model of development is not necessarily helpful for local fi nancial conditions and it results
in the disclacement of peasants and the loss of land resources. Based on the resulting ‘dilemmas of governance’, it is argued that, in addition to the ‘economic paradigm’, which focuses on consequences of fi scal reforms and devolution, scholars should pay more attention to factors such as the party/state’s promotion/evaluation system and the stress between the evaluative indicators system maintained by the central/local
sectoral command and the territorial jurisdictions. This could be helpful in gaining a fuller understanding of the dynamics and tensions of local developments in China.
coalition between district government and foreign capital emerged during this process of urban restructuring; the paper analyses the features of how this coalition exercises power. Finally, based on empirical research, the paper engages Western regime analysis in a theoretical dialogue.
Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan regions. The findings of extensive field research are used to illustrate two conceptual arguments. First, we show the on-the-ground complexity of inter-firm governance arrangements within the PC industry, thereby casting doubt upon attempts to reduce notions of governance to simplistic, industry-wide categorisations. Second, by comparing Greater Suzhou and Greater Dongguan, we demonstrate that even within a single production system, there
is geographical variation in the nature of the strategic coupling between the GPN and local institutional formations. We argue that conceptualising such geographical and organisational complexity is critical to understanding the regional development potential of GPNs.
companies have played a key role in propelling this wave of investment in the GSA by Taiwanese IT companies. At the same time, their business strategies have influenced the mechanisms governing these Taiwanese companies' supply chains and have forged the dynamics of spatial agglomeration. We argue that the transborder extension of the production networks is interwoven with the exercise of power between enterprise organizations. Our findings suggest that interdependence among firms in close geographical proximity is inseparable from the asymmetrical power relations embodied in global commodity chains; a point emphasized by economic geographers as the main reason for transborder production shifts that result in the formation of new industrial spaces in developing countries.However, if these production networks can respond collectively to such a strict environment through instituting suitable organizational governance, then their competitive advantage will be enhanced,
while also benefiting the host region's development through localization.
regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in
Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different technology park projects in Taiwan as well as their
impacts on local development. Inspired by the global production networks (GPNs) perspective, a triangular framework is
proposed – the interaction between state intervention, economic competence, and societal forces – to highlight and explain the geographically varied patterns of ‘strategic coupling’ between the global production networks and local institutional
embeddedness that shape the divergent patterns of regional development in Taiwan.
tion industry. Through a comparative analysis of two mobile-communication technology standard sö GSM and CDMAöwe find that there exist significantly different patent-distribution strategies which result in varied governance structure as well as power relations within seemingly similar production
networks. Furthermore, the different social ^ institutional processes of standard setting and implemen-tation of GSM and CDMA contribute to this varied governance structure to a significant degree. Thus, we highlight the role of patent-distribution strategies in influencing value-chain governance, and
provide a dynamic view of technological standards.
rights transformation in Suzhou and Dongguan, China, and investigates the relevant factors influencing this divergence from an institutionalist perspective. We point out that a local property rights regime based on the collective ownership system coupled with developmental dynamics at village level has made the transformation of farmland property rights in Dongguan different from that in Suzhou. We also discover some emerging local institutions that may have been factors in the variation of farmland
property rights transformation between these two regions. Furthermore, we observe that such spatial-institutional variation influences the welfare.
度、劳动政策和都市政策三个面向的改革议程。
Although there have been extensive studies on Chinese urbanization, few researches focus on the migrant workers in the world factory city and contextualize their livelihoods in those neighborhoods. This paper pays attention to the new-generation migrant workers' way of life in Shenzheng's Foxconn city, under-
stood as a relevant pattern of China's urbanism. Main research methods used were quantitative questionnaire analysis and qualitative in-depth interviews. Purposive sampling are used for collection of samples in field investigations conducted in July 2010, March 2011 and July 2011, each took around two weeks. 316 questionnaires were issued nearby Foxconn's plant in Shenzhen. Based on the first-hand survey data and in-depth interviews, we find evidence of“social alienation”is very common to these workers' urban experience. Furthermore, we argue that the interplay of hukou system, urban policy, Foxconn's enterprise strategies and labor control politics contributes to such alienated urbanism. Besides, there is not much opportunities for tech-
nique learning at the Pugong's(普工) work unit. On the production lines they are faced with base-level management's supervisory pressure as well as manipulation of workplace politics that strive for productivity. Offwork, Pugong is the wanderer in the city without much chance for social interaction. Moreover, the workers
are coping with huge disadvantages in regards of economic and hukou system if they wanted to settle in Shenzhen. Most Pugong would not settle and get married in Shenzhen, their family status is most often "split household" in two different places. Finally, this study highlights the multi-scalar institutional barriers that
squeeze the development of migrant workers' social networks and calls on an institutional reform.
This paper aims to explore the historical constructions and spatial confliction in Taipei’s urban redevelopment regime built upon the plot ratio subsidization from the perspective of financialization and double movement. We found the pro-growth regime created the fictitious rights system of surplus plot value as the leverage to facilitate the real estate investment. However, in achieving the profit rate and efficiency, the regime is lacking of the required
institutional embeddedness and accountability for governing the
urban redevelopment, resulted in the forced financialization of
homestead during the process. The urban social movement upraised to protest against the redevelopment regime through the explosive anti-eviction movement of Wang Family. We argue that the double movement of social self-protection is taking place within this urban process to re-embed the financializing urban development back to the societal embeddedness.
員之複雜作用。
This study aims to explore the role played by the music in social movement through the cases study of two issue-mobilization oriented concerts (IMOC): “Justice for All” and “Music, Life, Under the Tree”. We investigate the ways activists use the music concerts to achieve the goals of mobilization as well as empowerment. Based on the analysis of “organization-legitimation-performance” framework, we argue the music
activism actually creates “strong links” with social movements, which has transcended the mere propaganda level. Furthermore, we observed the possibility of the IMOC to shape the new mobilization structure in Taiwan’s context. Besides, we discuss the activists’ variant imaginations of the articulation between music and public participation that influence the music
scenes’ morphology as well as their relations with the crowd. Finally a research agenda concerning the resistant music and cultural reterritorialization was proposed.
done on the social and organizational foundations of economic activities and regional development. At the beginning, the paper reviews the concept of embeddedness. And then it introduces the geographer categories as "societal embeddedness". Network embeddedness and "territorial embeddedness" . On the theory basement, the paper discusses the argument about embeddedness of FDI- driven industrial cluster, and studies
the case of Pudong IC industrial cluster. The paper thinks that the spin- off of value chain improves the! territorial embeddedness of Pudong IC industrial cluster, just like the bridge. At last, the paper makes a conclusion.
本課程除了由授課者講授相關基礎概念之外,將具體討論七個主題城市案例:台北、台中、台南、上海、北京、深圳、香港。案例部分的每堂課,邀請兩位熟悉該主題城市的學者專家,進行各一小時的演講,第三個小時則進行對談、同學提問與交叉辯論。
作為社會系選修課以及通識課雙掛課程,這個課相當歡迎非社會系背景的陸生、港生同學參加。
關鍵詞:自辦市地重劃,壟斷地租,共識製造技術,成長機器,霸權型地方治理,權力
Keywords: urban land re-adjustment implementation by the private sector, monopoly rent, technology of consensus manufacturing, growth machine, hegemonic local governance, power